Omega's journey

Tuesday 23/10/07

Chilly again – and that will probably be the story for a while!! No yoga class because it is half term.

Entered my Monday’s steps into the USA website for “America on the move”. It appears that I have completed the “UK National Trail”. It seems to have converted my mileage over to the “Oregon”.

I have just noticed the similarity in stepcount numbers between Monday (30,413) and Tuesday (30,813) – how strange!

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on two laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 10.0lbs (i.e. 192.0 pounds)
Steps = 30,813
Distance = 11.42 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – but missed off my bedtime moisturising – very late to bed

Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
1 Jamaican Tilapia fillet (kind of fish), 4 new potatoes, 130g sweetcorn, 2 small knobs olive spread
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Hi Margaret,

Just catching up after several days absence.

Well done on getting through the 100lb milestone - great work! I quite like that we Brits on here have two sets of milestones to aim for: I broke through the 13 stone barrier last week and this week I've gone from the 180's to the 170's, so I get to celebrate again :D Twelve and a half stone is my next target and as that's only 2 pounds away, hopefully it won't be too long in coming. Baby steps, eh?

I know where you're coming from on the running/jogging thing. I have tried but I still feel too heavy, plus I hate the feeling of all my fat wobbling around:rolleyes:. I don't think it's particularly good for my right knee either (I have a longstanding problem with it). I did start doing some short phases of jogging on some of my walks, and I'll occasionally break into a trot if I'm going downhill or the mood takes me but by and large I'm a walker and I don't see that changing until I'm lighter yet. Perhaps when I'm under 12 stone I'll give it a proper go, knee-allowing. I certainly wouldn't have considered it at my original starting weight of 16 stone - heck, my joints could hardly take the strain of getting me out of a chair, let alone pounding the pavements! I agree with you - walking will get the job done (certainly in the beginning), along with diet of course.

Thanks for telling me about Diet Coke. I didn't realise that the chemicals could slow things down. That's rather unfortunate given that it has "diet" in the name:rolleyes: You're obviously keeping your consumption to a reasonable level though, or you wouldn't still be losing. I guess it's something you can hold in reserve to tinker with if your weight loss stops completely.

Keep up the good work! :D
 
Hi Avenue,

Congratulations on hitting your milestones. They are such fun to celebrate.

I love milestones. I can actually get more milestones out of it than tens of pounds and half stones.

Not only do I go in for those - but also BMI changes. You can use

or of course get your ticker signature to show it.

Every 5 of those seems to take you into a new category for a while - so I view all the multiples of 5 there as milestones. I enjoyed stopping being morbidly obese for instance.

Then of course there is fractions of the journey (the difference between start and target) and fractions of start weight. I absolutely loved hitting 14 stones because I had lost a third of my start weight. I wonder if I will ever get to ten and a half stone. Then I would be honestly able to say that I was half the woman I had been!!!!

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Sunshine! :hug2:

I agree w/clothes shopping! I'm not buying anything else "big"... I will lose this weight and go shopping in my 2 storage tubs full of smaller clothes!

:rotflmao:

I have set out a cute pair of size 13 jeans to help me keep going..

My 14's are just now a lil loose so they don't cut me in half.. By no means can I fit in the 13's.. They won't even go above my big bootie at this time.. :D

You have such great mini goals/goals...You're organized/pumped up..

Yer on yer way!! :hug2:

So proud of ya.. :)

~*Have A Goal Reachin' Wed!*~

<3

*Stacy
 
Hi Stacy

I certainly dont want to hang around in UK size 18s for too long. But I dont need too many clothes in a size to get me down to the next one if things keep going the way that they have been. I have a dress, some T shirts and a couple of tracksuit / leisuresuit type things. I do very little other than go out walking these days and those outfits will see me through that just fine. I need to drop a number of sizes to get where I want to be. Clothes that size look like they belong on a child compared to my current clothes - but I live in hope!!!

I think that we all need mini-goals or else the one target feels too far away. It is difficult to appreciate that we are getting ever nearer it with every pound lost.

I hope that your Wednesday is going well - followed by an excellent Thursday of course.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Wednesday 24/10/07

Went to Tescos on the way back from my morning walk.

General Data:

Morning walk = 7.3 miles.
Round the block = 5 times (on two laps my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 8.2lbs (i.e. 190.2 pounds)
Steps = 32,191
Distance = 11.93 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime

Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
1 grapefruit juice
200g roast chicken, half a cucumber, 5 tomatoes
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Omega said:
Hi everyone

It is really lovely to hear from you all. I really appreciate all your good wishes.

Manda - or 2/3 ME - I love that name
I know what you mean about cans being a bit of a luxury. The trouble is that the cans are 330ml and I never end up able to drink 330ml at the end of the day - I am so full of water. And anyway I am a born cheat. I would still take a mouthfull when fetching a glass of pop for my husband. He is still going through bottles of the stuff every day. Our fridge permanently has one current and four chilling bottles of it.

Freaksgirl and Lagniappe
Thanks for your congratulations.

Kim
My husband tells me he is proud of what I have achieved. I still have a lot of weight that I want to lose though - so now that I have finally found something that works I want to keep on going to the size that I was happiest. Even though I have lost a lot of weight by just about everyone's standards - I am still higher than most people with a serious weight problem ever get to be. I have never felt comfortable since becoming a big person. I just got to think that I had no choice in the matter. As far as clothes shopping goes I am inclined to get only the barest minimum at the minute. My size has changed so many times this year. You have to remember that I shop and wear UK sized clothes (surprise, surprise). The numbers appear to be different from what you have in USA. In February I was size 30 to 32. This is as big as Evans - the main shop here for big people - go up to. The majority of my clothes are this size. Basically clothes sizes are even numbers. I am now wearing size 18. I want to keep going downwards. Whilst on the project I have not stayed at any size for very long. If I can manage to keep going downwards I will save the bulk of my shopping spree for when I get to where I want to be. Before PCOS hit I was size 12 - but I do not see my bust ever going down to that without surgery.

My husband is indeed a computer games addict. He is now talking of getting Call of Duty 4 - out soon. In fact he likes everything to do with computers. If he is not playing games he is taking one apart to mess around with the insides - i.e. upgrading / enhancing it.

Today's walk was generally quite pleasant, thankfully, although I think that we have the colder weather now until the Spring.

Stacy
Thanks. I want us all to get 3 lbs under and more and more. With luck and with hard work we can all have a goal reachin day (and week etc).

Time2change
What a sweet comment.

When I first started walking I started from a zero start. I left my last job a few years ago and had spent two summers in Greece - there is a village there where I have always felt very comfortable. I felt less comfortable when I returned to England. I got so that I rarely left the house - it ended up so that apart from visiting friends and family I was going out of the house / garden once a week by car to go grocery shopping. That is what I mean when I say a zero start. I doubt that my step count got up to 1000 most days.

I suddenly determined that things were to change.

At first I just left the house and walked round the block. The road that I live on is a crescent and it comes from a straight road forming a capital D shape. I now do a number of these every day. I am not sure exactly how long it is but I guess it is between 0.65 to 0.75 miles. I didnt care about speed. All I really cared about was getting from A to B. Whatever the experts say, in my experience a stroll is vastly better than nothing. I built things up. I had so many days when I did that - then I stretched it and went along the straight bit as far as a newsagent shop. Then I increased it again - be it twice round the block or as far as a little parade of shops and back (0.8 miles each way). Slowly things built up. You see my stamina was improving. Also in a matter of a few weeks I found that I had speeded up a bit.

I certainly do not jog now. In fact I suspect that it would kill me to jog - I am not going there at this size. Dont believe anyone who tells you that you have to jog / run to lose weight through exercise - I am living proof - but you do have to put in time. I do step out quite quickly and I do go as far as gives me aching legs. Then I rest for a couple of hours and go back out again. I am very fortunate in that I am still not working so not having to juggle earning a living into my quite gruelling schedule. I compare myself to an athlete in training - the biggest athlete that is ever seen.

I would strongly suggest that you get a pedometer and if the weather is fine go out for a walk. Then your body will dictate the speed - not a number on a treadmill. When you find the right speed for you in a natural environment maybe you can find it on a treadmill.

Go for the longer hours approach and see how it works for you. It has certainly worked for me.

Take care
Love
Margaret
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Margaret! Hello!
I thought I would pop in ...
Thats how I started walking ... lol first was a ten minutes and now its a thirty minutes walk when I am busy with my schedule ..or an hour walk when I am able to get one in ...

but I have not been walking ...
but tomorrow is my thirty minutes walk ..if I can eek out an hour I will be happy ..need to go around the plazas a lot! and in the last round ..will stop into them ..to just get a looksey ...
You have inspired me to go forth ...and keep trecking and do what I need to do :)


Your awesome! And I am so stoked about your ability ..your movement forward ..your stamina ...

You go girl!!

love yas
always
natalie jo :hug2::hug2::hug2:
 
Hi Natalie Jo

Thanks for your support. It is so sweet of you to say that I inspire you. I honestly do not feel like much of an inspiring type of person. An inspiring person would probably not have left it to my age before dealing with things. The problem is that I just did not know how - and everything that I tried failed. I got into the mindset where I believed that it was impossible. I wish that I had dealt with it as I turned 30 like you are.

You are doing great and I am convinced that if you keep on being good with your food and building up your stamina by walking - more pounds will come rolling off. Remember - I do not go out bicycle riding as yet like you do - and I am sure that you do more toning exercise than me. Apart from my two lessons a week - I rarely have been slotting any toning exercise in over the past month. As my walking has increased, my toning exercises have diminished.

It really does get me cross when I see people say that walking does not help you lose weight and that you have to run or jog. That may be true for people who only have to lose 10 pounds (I have no idea about that - and I will worry about the last 10 pounds when / if I get there - it is of very little interest to me now). All I know is that kind of talk made me think that there was nothing that I could do by exercise. I remember buying a book that said just that 11 years ago and stopping doing the little bit of walking that I had started doing. Surprise, surprise - the diet that I was on at the time failed. It is absolute nonsense to think that the larger person can go out running / jogging. We would all keel over and know it!!! I still wouldnt dare to jog now.

Life is not fair - and we have to be better with our food than everyone else and do more exercise than everyone else - but if we do that I firmly believe that it is possible. And I have to say that I would never have believed that I could drop the amount of weight that I have as quickly.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi sunshine. :)

RE: pilates ....

Thought you might be interested in this..



:hug2:

I agree w/ya about walking..

Not only does it promote weight-loss, it's so great for clearing your head/melting away stress.

It's so funny bc when I day dream at times, I invision this perfect town where we could move where yer able to walk everywhere and get things you need, run errands, etc..

I wish there was a place like that around here!

I'm so jealous when I watch the travel channel and see all these great places like that! Especially the places with awesome farmers type markets / flea markets everywhere.. Man, I would just love that!

*Have A Great Day!*

:hug2:
 
Hi Stacy

It is funny that you should say that. We only have one car - and husband has that with him at work (I havent driven in over 20 years) so I do incorporate bits of shopping into my walk. Also there is a market on a Thursday here - and I saw the neighbours kids clearly heading there this-morning (the kids are on holiday this week for half term). I didnt bother going to the market though.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thursday 25/10/07

It drizzled pretty much all day – but I did all my walks just the same.

On a personal note I arranged for my parents to get their card from The Queen for their 65th Wedding Anniversary coming up in November. We are entitled to cards (it used to be telegrams) on key birthdays after age 100 and key anniversaries after 60th. When I told my mother – she was really pleased and she hadn’t even realised that she was entitled to one this year. She hinted a lot to me to get it sorted out five years ago – and she still displays the card that she got then. We have no option but to attend and she already has a family party planned. It is a bit of a joint celebration as it will be my father's 90th birthday two days after the wedding anniversary - but we will have to return home before then. That will be one celebration where my diet will get put to one side for a day or two.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on one lap my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 8.0lbs (i.e. 190.0 pounds)
Steps = 29,829
Distance = 11.06 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime

Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
120g oak smoked ham 131 calories
1 grapefruit juice
3 handfulls dry pasta, sauce 35 calories, 1 courgette, ½ red pepper, ½ green pepper, ½ onion, garlic
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
Omega said:
Hi Stacy

It is funny that you should say that. We only have one car - and husband has that with him at work (I havent driven in over 20 years) so I do incorporate bits of shopping into my walk. Also there is a market on a Thursday here - and I saw the neighbours kids clearly heading there this-morning (the kids are on holiday this week for half term). I didnt bother going to the market though.

Take care
Love
Margaret
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Sooo...Are you hinting for me to move there and be your neighbor?

:rotflmao:

That would be so cool! :D

I really wish they would think much longer/harder before building communities!

That is so neat about the cards from the Queen. :)

~*~Happy Friday!~*~ :hug2:
 
WOW a card from the Queen, that's just awesome! :eek2: What a milestone for your folks! And I know this 2 day ordeal will be fine, I wouldn't worry about the food in the least! You rarely sway from eating well, so a break once a month or ever few months, is not even going to put a dent in your weight loss venture. I see you use garlic in your cooking, is that "fresh" garlic?? That is a good antioxidant and helps flush out the system, I'm a garlic O'holic and of course my hubby gets on me for smelling like garlic or onions all the time. LOL LOL Hey, I love them both what can I say, and garlic is my favorite in just about anything I eat during dinner!

Well, have a good weekend, enjoy your time away and dont worry about the food, enjoy it!! Can't wait to hear all about the parties!

Kim:hug2:
 
Thanks for visiting my diary. I hope that you both have a "goal reachin" Saturday.

Stacy
It would be great if you lived near to me. We could go walking together.
You are right - they really should put more thought into designing communities. Better designed communities could mean that more people did things on foot. This would be better for the planet as less petrol would be used to move people from A to B, and it would be better for the health of the population as a whole.

Kim
I love garlic in cooking. I get both fresh and chopped. If I have time I used the fresh stuff - but if I am in a rush or run out I used the jar of chopped. I love garlic on chicken, mushrooms and on courgettes. I keep meaning to try and grow some - but have never got round to it yet. Maybe next year....
I also love olives - and get those from my different friends' olive trees in Greece.
I do grow and jar by own chilli peppers - and have enough to get me through winter.

Both
My mother is now really looking forward to her card from The Queen. She tells me that she has been phoning loads of friends to say that she is getting a card. I just hope that it arrives ok as we keep having post office strikes. Those celebrations will keep me busy in two weekends time. It should mar my diet nicely at the start of the forthcoming challenge for November.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Friday 26/10/07

Definitely one of those days when I felt like I wanted to nibble things all day. In addition to what I would normally eat – I could not resist several little snacks – polishing off left-overs along the way. I don’t know why – that is just the way it was.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on two lap my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 8.8lbs (i.e. 190.8 pounds)
Steps = 30,288
Distance = 11.23 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime

Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
Small handful coco shreddies
1 grapefruit juice
leftovers - 1 handful dry pasta, sauce about 10 calories, 1/6 courgette, 1/6 red pepper, 1/6 green pepper,1/6 onion, garlic
trout fillet, 4 new potatoes, sweetcorn, 2 small knobs olive spread
4 olives
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
 
I wouldn't worry about bein' snack hungry. ;)

We will all go through those times.

At least it wasn't junk! :hug2:

I hope you're havin' a Great Saturday!
 
Saturday 27/10/07

All that I can say is thank goodness that I had fish for my main meal last night. I snacked all day yesterday and then had trout as my main meal. Delighted to note that my weight has gone down to a new low today. I have often noticed that I mostly get a good result on the scales the day after I have fish. That is why I try to have fish at least twice a week – sometimes more.

In the UK our clocks all change at the end of today and we go from British Summer Time to GMT. We get an extra hour in bed – or an extra hour of steps tomorrow.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on one lap my husband came too)
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 13st 7.4lbs (i.e. 189.4 pounds)
Steps = 31,511
Distance = 11.68 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime

Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9 calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
1 grapefruit juice
pork loin chop, tin of baked beans, dessertspoon of applesauce
2 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola
1 Foxes glacier fruit sweet
 
Hi Stacy

Thanks. I just dont know why I couldnt stop nibbling on things all day Friday. I just sometimes get that kind of mood.

I really didnt deserve the scales to come down on Saturday morning - but one good thing about weighing myself every day (although I accept that it may not work for some people) is that I have noticed that some meals work out really well for me. Fish often works out really well.

I mostly cook fish in the same way. I take a small knob of olive spread and rub it over the fish and in the cavity if there is one. For some fish I add a slice or two of lemon. Then I bake in the oven for about 25 minutes at 180.
I even often use another knob of olive spread on new potatoes and sweetcorn. It doesnt feel like a diet meal at all.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
You do deserve the scale to come down! :hug2:

Everyone is different and if you do well weighing daily, you keep it up.. ;)

OooO that meal sounds super yummy!!

~*Have A Goal Reachin' Sunday!*~

:hug2:
 
Margaret,

That is really great about your parents celebrating their 65th anniversary! It sounds like they are in good health. :)

Hubby bought me a pedometer yesterday because I forgot to get one the other day from Walmart. I'm going to keep it on all day to measure my distance. I am getting better on the mile, so maybe this week I will try to increase it to 1.25 or even 1.5.

I don't know if you have ever mentioned it or not, but has your hubby lost any weight from when he walks with you around the block?

Wow.. you are down to 189! You are doing SO good! You've come a long way!! I'm not a competitive person, but I wouldn't mind it at all if I could keep up with your results. Of course, you walk 10 times the amount I do....I need to pick up the pace!

Talk to you later. :)
Anne
 
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